Engineering Senior Manager/Chapter Lead

• You are an experienced engineering leader who enables innovation deliver meaningful outcomes
• We are a collaborative team building modern, resilient banking technology.
• Together we can build resilient systems that strengthen the future

Do work that matters

We're a collaborative engineering team, dedicated to building trusted, high-quality solutions that power CommBank's Institutional Banking & Markets division. Our work supports Australia's financial markets, and we focus on building technology that is reliable, sustainable, and designed with long-term impact in mind.

Here, you'll lead and grow a talented engineering team while delivering platforms that strengthen the bank's future and support the people who rely on them.

See yourself in our team

As a Senior Engineering Leader, you'll support teams to deliver strong technical outcomes while nurturing modern engineering practices and a culture grounded in trust, learning, and continuous improvement. You'll combine hands-on engineering with people leadership, ensuring platforms are secure, scalable, and thoughtfully designed.

You'll work in close partnership with business and technology stakeholders, fostering shared understanding and translating complex technical ideas into clear, customer-focused solutions. This role contributes meaningfully to how we work together, how we make decisions, and how we continue to improve.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

• Have demonstrable experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Can balance technical excellence with delivery agility and strong stakeholder engagement.
• Create inclusive, psychologically safe environments where people feel supported and heard
• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly to non-technical audiences and influence decision making.
• Bring commercial awareness with a product mindset, considering customer needs, risk, and long-term value
• Thrive in environments where modernisation, continuous improvement and operational excellence are key.
• Bring experience in financial services, ideally with exposure to financial markets or data-intensive domains.

Tech skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. Experience with some of these will set you up for success:

• Strong programming experience with Python (backend/data) and TypeScript (front end), with the ability to work across multiple languages when needed.
• Deep experience with AWS (certification preferred).
• Experience working with ETL pipelines, data platforms and writing efficient SQL for complex queries.
• Strong understanding of databases and caching technologies (Snowflake, Postgres, Oracle).
• Experience with event-driven and messaging systems such as SQS, SNS or Kafka.
• Familiarity with engineering and delivery toolchains including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Octopus, TeamCity and Artifactory.
• Managing the design, build and operations of the system (DevSecOps).
• Expertise in observability and reliability practices using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch.
• Solid understanding of security best practices including secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) and certificate management.
• Experience with automated testing and modern testing methodologies such as TDD and BDD.
• Ability to design and implement scalable, data-intensive systems using APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns and serverless architectures.
• Knowledge of deployment strategies, CI/CD and SRE principles
• Interest or experience in AI and machine learning technologies, including agentic AI frameworks, Eval frameworks and automated supervisory/monitoring.

Working with us

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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